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2 WEEKS BEFORE THE WAR
Satoru was barely present. It's something you're used to - really. But you couldn't stop missing him. You wanted him next to you, you missed his touch, his talk, everything
He was far away in the tasks that the higher ups gave him. You couldn't bring yourself to be angry, and even if you did you couldn't take it out on him. He had no control over it. He had to listen to them.
Like a dog, really. Obeys every order given to him, even though he doesn't have to. Obeys every command they give him even though he can do whatever he wants. He is the strongest after all
He talked to you several times about how fed up he was, he said he was going to make a change. He hated the higher ups. He blamed them for everything. He wanted them gone.
"These children are losing the best years of their lives! These higher ups are ruining their childhoods, sometimes I'm not sure I can protect them all the time.'' Satoru spoke, his voice was angry. You didn't know much about his past, he didn't want to tell - but you could guess that he was speaking from experience. Maybe he went through the same thing too?
There weren't many situations where you could comfort Satoru. He wouldn't open up to you much with his problems and thoughts, but when he did you tried to cheer him up as much as you could.
"You're too stressed, Satoru. You've been like this for a week. You need to relax..'' You brushed his hair that had fallen over his eyes, even though they were covered by a blindfold. He didn't wear it around you much
"Sorry, sorry." Satoru waved his hands and forced himself to smile. You didn't like that forced smile. you hated it "I have a bad feeling, that's all."
"You have nothing to worry about, Satoru. The kids will be fine, and so will you, and so will I, and so will everyone." You brought his face into your palms, looked at his hooded eyes and smiled. You couldn't ask yourself how he saw something, even though he had explained it to you many times before.
You thought to yourself for a few seconds. There has to be a way to encourage him right? There must be a way to improve his mood, there must be. So far he has made you the happiest woman on earth, you must find a way to return the favor, even if it is not his way.
"I heard from my friend that today there is a festival in town, it's almost new years. They decided to celebrate it early. do you want to go together? There will be delicious food, games, and fireworks too!" You asked him with a smile. His temporary silence made you think he would cancel the invitation, but he nodded and smiled. "Sure"
You wasted no time getting organized. Your conversation was towards the evening so you barely had a few hours to get ready for the festival. You both wore traditional Japanese clothing, even your hair was neat. You would look good. You were terribly excited.
When Satoru saw you with the new clothes and traditional look, his heart skipped a beat. "You look beautiful." He took your hands in his. "You look pretty, too."
In half an hour, you and Satoru were already holding so many things. You held a cotton candy that Satoru had bought you. Satoru also had sakura-flavored taiyaki in his bag to go.
"Should we try the fortune strips at the shrine over there?" Satoru suggested, pointing to the big temple that sat on a small island in the middle of a pond, you'd have to get there by an arched bridge.
"Sure," you smiled, Satoru taking your arm as the two of you walked over to the bridge. You looked down into the water, which had been mostly covered by sakura blossoms from all the trees, the sight was beautiful.
There was a shrine maiden at the stands who was giving them out with a big smile. When you and Satoru approached, the woman warmly greeted you both.
"Hello! Would you like to try the fortune slips?"
"Yes, please," you and Satoru said together, giving the woman a hundred yen each.
The woman smiled and thanked them before taking out a hexagon tube box. Inside, you knew, there the omikuji sticks with numbers written at the tip. She handed Y/N the tube box and instructed her to shake it until a stick came out.
三つ. Three.
Y/N gave it to the shrine maiden and she gladly gave a small strip of paper to Y/N, before the lady turned to Satoru.
You felt confused when there was nothing inside. Nothing was written. Is it supposed to be like this at all? What about the blessing?
You didn't argue with that
"What was yours?" Satoru asked, appearing beside Y/N. "Mine was a future blessing. . ." He added
"Was empty" you said
"That's weird, it's not supposed to be empty from what I know" Satoru raised an eyebrow, you waved your hands. "Yes, but it doesn't matter. It's just a game, it's not like it tells me the future if I really have a blessing or not"
"Ah, we're almost late." Satoru said, and before you could react he took you by the waist and ran with you. What you were holding in your hands fell, luckily for you what was in the bag remained there unharmed.
"W-where are we going?" you asked him, a little startled that he picked you up like that without warning. But what startled you more was the next thing.
"You'll see." Satoru smirked, and suddenly you didn't feel like you were on the ground at all. Satoru jumped, he jumped so high and to your shock, he stayed at the same point up
You gasped. the view from above the city was beautiful, the lights made the city glow. Satoru sworn to himself that the sight of your face was way more beautiful than the city. "Three... two.. one..."
A loud noise of fireworks filled the festival, and the sky shone with different colors and different shapes. The fireworks were something that made your heart skip a beat. It was beautiful. You've never seen the fireworks from so high in the sky.
"It's beautiful.." You whispered to yourself, but loud enough for Satoru to hear. Although he didn't respond. He smiled, he didn't even look at the fireworks, it didn't really interest him. His face was focused on yours. The reflection of the fireworks was in your eyes and that was worth more than anything in the world to him.
As the fireworks faded and eventually stopped after a few minutes, Satoru started to speak, but you cut him off before he could. "It was beautiful, I've never seen fireworks like that in my life"
He laughed, tightening his hold on you. After all you two were in the sky together, floating. "I'm glad you liked it"
"I'll do anything for you, you know that? I love you, I'm crazy in love with you.'' He placed a small kiss on the side of your neck
"I love you, too." It was really beautiful, thanks for showing it to me." You hadn't really planned on seeing the fireworks, actually- it slipped your mind. You invited him here to try to cheer him up, but it seems the opposite happened.
"I promise you that I will protect you, from everything. I will die before anything bad happens to you.'' His voice was serious, but full of love. You didn't like conversations about death, especially not those related to you and the ones you love.
"Nothing bad will happen to me for you to have to risk your life. I promise you that."
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